Re: [tip:tracing/ftrace] tracing: fix oops in tracepoint_update_probe_range()

[Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 17:51 +0000, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> Commit-ID:  966a6fdf6210e3ac8ce00b61cd1107cdf97ce744
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/966a6fdf6210e3ac8ce00b61cd1107cdf97ce744
> Author:     Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
> AuthorDate: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:18:56 +0530
> Commit:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> CommitDate: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:48:43 +0100
> 
> tracing: fix oops in tracepoint_update_probe_range()
> 
> Change this crash:
> 
>  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
>  IP: [<ffffffff8107d4de>] tracepoint_update_probe_range+0x1f/0x9b
>  PGD 13d5fb067 PUD 13d688067 PMD 0
>  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> 
> To a more debuggable WARN_ONCE().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> LKML-Reference: <1237394936.3132.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
> [ moved the check outside the lock and added a WARN_ON(). ]
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> 
> ---
>  kernel/tracepoint.c |    9 +++++++--
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
> index 7960274..dd15df9 100644
> --- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
> +++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
> @@ -272,12 +272,17 @@ static void disable_tracepoint(struct tracepoint *elem)
>   *
>   * Updates the probe callback corresponding to a range of tracepoints.
>   */
> -void tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint *begin,
> -	struct tracepoint *end)
> +void
> +tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint *begin, struct tracepoint *end)
>  {
>  	struct tracepoint *iter;
>  	struct tracepoint_entry *mark_entry;
>  
> +	if (!iter) {
> +		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>  	mutex_lock(&tracepoints_mutex);
>  	for (iter = begin; iter < end; iter++) {
>  		mark_entry = get_tracepoint(iter->name);

my original patch was correct.

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JSR